Re: Input sysbsystema and hotplug

[Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>]

On Tuesday 14 June 2005 02:47, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > On Tuesday 14 June 2005 02:32, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> >>And yes, we should break compability and come up with a clean
> >>implementation.
> > 
> > But those pesky users scream every time we break their mice ;)
> > 
> >>And as the original input event is an abomination I 
> >>don't see the point in keeping compability with a broken interface.
> >>
> > 
> > Why is it abomination (aside from using old mechanism to call
> > hotplug)? It looks like it transmits all data necessary to load
> > appropriate input handler...
> > 
> Because there are _two_ events with the name 'input'.
> Both run under the same name but carry different information.
> One is required to load the module and the other is required to create
> the device node.
> 
> That's what I call an abomination.
>

Ah, I see. Yep, it "input" wasn't reused when input_handlers were converted
to class_simple we probably would not have this discussion now.

-- 
Dmitry
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